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Lead Mine Interior

Date: 1930
Description: View inside a lead mine showing six miners with a car on a track.
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Football Team

Date: 1899
Description: The football team from Platteville Normal School.
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Prospecting for Lead

Date: 06 1949
Description: Gophering, or prospecting for lead using a windlass at Maplewood Farm.
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Open Hearth Lead Furnace

Date: 1872
Description: Galena (lead sulfide) was melted at this open hearth furnace owned by Richard Straw and Company on the Roundtree Branch of the Little Platte River. The men...
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Looking East down Main Street in Platteville

Date: 1930
Description: View looking east down Main Street at the intersection with Court Street. Coyle's Drugstore is on the right.
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Home of E. France

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Description: Home of E. France & Son. The buildings from left to right are: Warehouse No. 2 (partially blocked by 20 foot tall spruce hedge), Warehouse No. 3, 160 colon...
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Miners at Diner

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Description: Zinc miners at tables in the dining hall near.
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Wisconsin State College

Date: 1957
Description: Wisconsin State College (later renamed the University of Wisconsin-Platteville). The Student Union is in final stages of construction, and in the foregroun...
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Two Water Towers

Date: 1957
Description: View looking up at two water towers. The roof of a building and treetops are in the foreground.
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Tufa Falls

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Description: View of Tufa Falls.
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Trinity Episcopal Church

Date: 1864
Description: Slightly elevated view across grounds towards the Trinity Episcopal Church, built in 1864.
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Straw Lead Furnace

Date: 1880
Description: A straw lead furnace, an open hearth furnace where lead sulphite (Galena) was roasted. Located on the Rountree branch of the Little Platte River, Richard S...
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State Teachers College

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Description: Exterior view of the State Teachers College.
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State Teachers College

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Description: A view of the State Teacher's College. Snow is on the ground and covering the trees. The State Teacher's College and the Mining College in Platteville merg...
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State Normal School

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Description: A view of the State Normal School, founded in 1866.
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Plaque at State Mining School

Date: 1930
Description: A view of the plaque on a maple tree outside the State Mining School. It reads: "Planted April 1869 by Professor Charles H. Allen, Professor Duncan McGrego...
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Wisconsin State College

Date: 1957
Description: A view of Royce Hall at the Wisconsin State College at Platteville.
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Rountree House

Date: 1948
Description: The John H. Rountree House, built in 1854. According to "The History of Wisconsin" (Vol. I, 1973), "The rise of the settlement at Platte Mounds was indisso...
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City Park

Date: 1930
Description: View of the city park, with a gazebo on the right.
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Mitchell-Rountree House

Date: 1945
Description: View of the Mitchell-Rountree house (the first).

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